Good sale for Romney ewes

Press, 4 March 1982, Page 18

Good sale for Romney ewes

Annual draft Romney ewes topped $24 for the first time this season at the Addington store sheep sale yesterday. Several good lines of annual draft sheep from Banks Peninsula were yarded. The top price of $24.80 was received by J. R. Stanbury (Little River) for 460 shorn Romneys. The best of the two-tooths also had a good sale. Perendales made to $3l for a ling from G. < Steele (Port Levy) and Corriedales from the Hawkswood Estate (Parnassus), sold to $28.40. In all sections, heavy sheep with large frames were in demand, but as has been the case at most store sales' this season, sheep that were light sold at discounted prices. Most of the sheep yarded were showing the effects of the prolonged drought. Buyers concentrated on stock with enough condition to take the ram. A total of 2437 two-tooths (3497 last week) and 9998 old ewes ; (9929) were yarded. Store lamb values increased for the second successive week.. The market was described as very firm and shorn lambs in a good forward condition were in demand. Buyers showed • a preference for strong-wool wethers, such as Perendale, Romney and Coopworth. Many of the woolly lambs offered sold at less than the market rate. Most of the lambs were in a light condition, but a few pens of heavy lambs sold for more than $l6. Many sales were made between $lO and $12.50. The total yarding of store i lambs was. 6035 compared with

4767 last week. Buyers from outside Canterbury were operating- . ■ . . With the calf-selling season approaching, a line of calves in the store cattle section created considerable interest. The calves from E. A. Hutchinson (Little River) are sold about the same time each year and can give an indication of prices for the coming season. Twenty-four Hereford-Short-horn cross steer calves sold from $162 to $2OO, and 23 heifer calves sold from $125 to $l6B. The adult cattle yarding was small with only 159 yarded. Good two-year-old cattle in a forward condition sold well, but buyers showed little interest in light stock. Sales included:— Lambs: Snrubland Partnership (Hororata), 587 mixed sex at $lO to $12.10; Bowenvale Partnership (Hillsborough), 642 shorn Coopworths at $ll to $11.20; B. and B. Parkinson (Kaituna), 100 Perendales at $14.10; P. N. Buttle (Hororata), 278 Corriedale wethers at $8.60 to $12.10 and 104 ewe lambs at $l4; Hawkswood Estate (Parnassus), 500 Corriedales at $B.lO to $11.20; R. A. France (Methven), 279 shorn Romneys at $15.20; K. J. Howden (Oxford), 650 Corriedales at $8 to $12.60. Two-tooth ewes: Blakely Children’s Trust (Purau), 141 Perendales at $18.60 to $20.40; G. Steele (Port Levy), 176 Perendales at $20.60 to $3l; Newell Partnership (Waiau), 61. Coopworths at $2O; C. E. Grigg (Hickory Bay),. 187 Coopworths at $2l to $21.80; Hawkswood Estate (Parnassus), 196 Corriedales at $22.80 to

$28.40; Misses D., E. and M. Aitken (Kaikoura), 128 Romneys at $2O; G. H. Fulton (Swannanoa), 100 Border-Corriedale cross at $17.40. Old ewes: J. R. Stanbury (Little River), 460 annual draft Romneys at $24.80 and 91 at $15.80; D. L. Mason (Little River), 197 anndal draft Romneys at $l9; R. V. Masefield (Little River), 189 annual draft Romneys at $l7; J. D. Waller (Little River), 122 annual draft Romneys at $17.40; Willesden Farm (Prices Valley), 167 annual draft Romneys at $l5; A. Mowat (Cheviot), 142 five-year Corriedales at $14.60 and 159 four-year Corriedales at $l3; Blythe Downs (Cheviot), 505 annual draft Corriedales at $lB to $18.40; D. J. Russell (Hawarden), 99 annual draft Corriedales at $13.20; G. Steele (Port Levy), 50 Perendales at $15.20; Blakely

Childrens Trust (Purau), 197 annual draft Perendales at $17.80 and 152 mixed-age shorn Perendales at $l3; Edzell Partnership (Wainui), 258 annual draft Romneys at $19.80; E. R. S. Johnston (Russells Flat), 286 annual draft Romneys at $11; D. McKay (Pigeon Bay), 90 annual draft Romneys at $l4; D. W. Wright (Wainui), 50 annual draft Romneys at $16.80; L. L. Craw and Sons (Duvauchelle), 56 annual draft Romneys at $15.40; W. F. Gerard (Rakaia Gorge), 350 annual draft Romneys at $12.80 to $16.20; E. C. Trewin (Oaro), 290 annual draft Corriedales at $12.80 to $18; E. J. Ridgen (Greendale), 127 mixed-age Romneys at $16.60; P. J. Innes (Pigeon Bay), 993 annual draft Romneys at $15.20; A. E. Birdling (Birdlings Flat), 287 annual draft Halfbreds at $l2.